how about not using LBA but plain CHS mode in your BIOS settings? this might help AFAIK.

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> wrote:>Previously Anton Ivanov wrote:>> I would suggest to try the following - force the number of heads, cylinders,>> tracks to a proper value before partitioning using the fdisk extended options>> (x - expert mode).>>Doesn't help. I also tried telling the kernel the proper geometry on>bootup (hda=c,h,s), but the real problem appears to be that the kernel>gets the disk size wrong: it thinks it's 8Gb instead of 13.5Gb. So>whatever geometry you try to use it still won't work..>>Wichert.

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